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Welcome to Ikinapikir, a podcast where union good and not everything that is called co-op is good.

Sometimes they're not actually really co-ops.

I am your host, Mia Wong, and today we are joined by the people struggling under the tyrannical fist of a co-op, a thing that shouldn't be possible, and yet somehow...

Yeah, so we're talking today with Ez and Finley, who are booksellers at the Seminary Co-op in Chicago.

And yeah, we are welcoming the union back to the show.

And dear God, what a disaster.

What a year it has been.

Well, it's really great to be back.

I wish we were back with slightly better news or more movement since we were last here, certainly.

Yeah.

Because when we last spoke, we had just sort of theatrically announced to our management that we were an organized shop with the IWW and we were going to be bargaining with them for better wages and humane working conditions for us all.

And they were like, yeah, you're a union.

We so recognize that.

And then they have sat on their hands ever since.

Yeah, so let's roll back all the way to the beginning and explain a little bit about what the Seminary Co-op is for people who weren't here.

How many years ago was that now?

That must have been last year.

Yeah, it was a while ago.